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Thanks, but they changed things, the dentist (specialist) thinks the cavity may be to big and now want to see me on the 10th. Hopefully it does not get much worse by then. If he checks and it is not to big, then the root canal is on the 11th. If it is, it is an extraction and I have no idea what is happening with that. . All I know is it has to be all done before mid-may when I go to Japan and Hong Kong
Top 2 of my dream destinations. I've never been off north America before. But one day I will have the funds and I will appreciate it more than if I didn't have to wait. I once Had a round trip ticket to Tokyo cost me like $1400 was going to go to the kodokan and train with my senseis teacher. I got sick and wasn't able to make it. I did get a partial refund. And a year later I used the money to take my family to Las Vegas.
 
Top 2 of my dream destinations. I've never been off north America before. But one day I will have the funds and I will appreciate it more than if I didn't have to wait. I once Had a round trip ticket to Tokyo cost me like $1400 was going to go to the kodokan and train with my senseis teacher. I got sick and wasn't able to make it. I did get a partial refund. And a year later I used the money to take my family to Las Vegas.
Hope you're able to get there, I have never been to any of them, been to Las Vegas and Beijing, but not Japan, Taiwan or Hong Kong.
 
Hope you're able to get there, I have never been to any of them, been to Las Vegas and Beijing, but not Japan, Taiwan or Hong Kong.
Taiwan also seems like an interesting place. I mer someone who was a relative of one of a friend of the family. He was in Taiwan for 2 years teaching something at a school there. He said they had some very interesting delicacy type food.
 
Taiwan also seems like an interesting place. I mer someone who was a relative of one of a friend of the family. He was in Taiwan for 2 years teaching something at a school there. He said they had some very interesting delicacy type food.
food is supposed to be good in Taiwan. I have also been told it is good in Hong Kong. My wife knows people from Taiwan and has a colleague in Hong Kong
 
food is supposed to be good in Taiwan. I have also been told it is good in Hong Kong. My wife knows people from Taiwan and has a colleague in Hong Kong
I’ve never been to Asia. My wife has gone to Vietnam and Thailand for work, but I wasn’t able to tag along. Thailand and Japan are on the bucket list. She was in Chang Mai and said it was delightful.

I’ve traveled all over central and Northern Europe but haven’t spent much time in Italy or Spain.
 
I’ve never been to Asia. My wife has gone to Vietnam and Thailand for work, but I wasn’t able to tag along. Thailand and Japan are on the bucket list. She was in Chang Mai and said it was delightful.

I’ve traveled all over central and Northern Europe but haven’t spent much time in Italy or Spain.
I've been to Norway but that is the only place in Europe, but my wife is planning a trip for us there in the next couple years. We have another trip to Beijing and on to Europe, just not sure which one we are going to first. All I Know is the second one will be after I retire.
 
In the next few months sometime. My brother has agreed to film me doing my forms. And then I want to put them on here to share with you all in members In motion. I have learned tons And I'm excited to share some of what I've learned.
 
You: "How are you?"
AI: "I'm fine. How are you?"
You: "It's nice weather today."
AI: "You're so boring! Even if I don't understand positioning, I still understand how to check the weather forecast."
You: I don't know how to communicate with people. Can you teach me?
AI: Sorry, I can't! I haven't got my teaching certificate yet.
You: ...
 
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After 9:30PM…. Still in my basement guan doing Wing Chun…. This may have supplanted my Xingyiquan addiction… don’t want to stop, but i have to. Mrs Xue just told me she’s going to bed and i am, and i quote…”making to much noise hitting that tree” (mook)

Sil lum tao and then back upstairs i guess
 
After 9:30PM…. Still in my basement guan doing Wing Chun…. This may have supplanted my Xingyiquan addiction… don’t want to stop, but i have to. Mrs Xue just told me she’s going to bed and i am, and i quote…”making to much noise hitting that tree” (mook)

Sil lum tao and then back upstairs i guess
I could totally see xing yi complementing maybe even enhancing someone's wing chun. I study an art that is basically the opposite of wing chun think choy lay fut or a southern long fist system modified for Americans. And my teacher will use xing yi concepts to fine tune our movements or techniques sometimes. Especially our straight punches. My double punch has gotten insanely powerful from those small xing yi critiques. Idk if there is a double punch in xing yi but it worked. I also do my forms in a tai chi like pace(not the fighting tai chi pace the meditative one) I have benefited alot from internal arts even though I've never formally practiced them.
 
This might not be the right place for this but I'll see. My sifu knew I was going through some rough anxiety lately. So he told me this week to practice my forms slowly like meditative tai chi. Just focus on my breath and mindful of the movements. Man it feels so good to train like that. It's good to get the breathwork in and the blood flow/circulation. Man Kung Fu is such a blessing to me.
 
Busy day, work from home (my office), call social security, deal with the bank, finish setting up a laptop for my wife's office, deliver a chair and laptop to my wife's office, go out to the yard and bag limbs and branches. And somewhere in her go do Wing Chin and Taijiquan in my basement....already have the stationary bike and sit-ups done.....
 
Theres a guy in my apartment complex, probably about mid 70s. Every morning for months I've seen him walking around the outside of the complex on repeat. From what I've gathered, he walks from around 8/830am until at least 1130 (latest ive seen him).

No clue what prompted him to start this, but I admire his dedication.
 
Since I retired, I've been spending about 3 hours each morning cataloguing a few local cemeteries for genealogy. It's very pleasant. The cemetery grounds are quiet, and the work is very methodical, and there's an element of service to it. I've connected with a few of the on site staff, and after I'm done going through every plot, they've agreed to help me solve any mysteries I might uncover. A few stones are illegible, and in many cases, there are markers that have only a first initial and last name, with no dates. I live in a historically rural area that was quite poor, so often the families didn't have money to replace the temporary marker provided by the cemetery... these weren't made to last.

After 30 years working for the social security administration, I'm happy for a little while doing simple things that don't involve being threatened or yelled at by angry members of the general public.
 
Since I retired, I've been spending about 3 hours each morning cataloguing a few local cemeteries for genealogy. It's very pleasant. The cemetery grounds are quiet, and the work is very methodical, and there's an element of service to it. I've connected with a few of the on site staff, and after I'm done going through every plot, they've agreed to help me solve any mysteries I might uncover. A few stones are illegible, and in many cases, there are markers that have only a first initial and last name, with no dates. I live in a historically rural area that was quite poor, so often the families didn't have money to replace the temporary marker provided by the cemetery... these weren't made to last.

After 30 years working for the social security administration, I'm happy for a little while doing simple things that don't involve being threatened or yelled at by angry members of the general public.
SOCIAL SECURITY!!!!! Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch......

Actually I was dealing with them today and I got no where.... but I really didn't expect much to begin with

When I worked for the Education Department" I was uniform security, but let a teacher hear who I worked for.... I got hit with all sorts of complaints
 
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